STRUCK BY TRAIN
CROSSING KEEPER KILLED BODY MUTILATED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, April 11. While endeavouring to keep back a motor-cyclist from crossing the railway when the electric train from Lyttelton was approaching, Arthur William Bright, aged 42, married, with six children, was himself struck by the train, run over, and killed instantly. The body was carried on about seventy yards and terribly mutilated. Bright, a one-armed ex-service man, was a crossing keeper at Waltham Road, the scene of many accidents. He had been at the crossing several months and previously was employed at others. The electric trains are more silent than the steam ones, and they approach this crossing at about fifteen miles an hour.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 169, 12 April 1930, Page 12
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116STRUCK BY TRAIN Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 169, 12 April 1930, Page 12
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